The Connexion of Natural and Divine Truth: Or, The Study of the Inductive Philosophy, Considered as Subservient to Theology

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Sivu x Among these the Bridgewater Treatise of Mr . Whewell , the Discourse of Lord
Brougham , and the Fragment of Mr . Babbage , stand conspicuous , especially
when the first is taken in connexion with some passages in the History of the ...

Sivu xi I must here also add a passing reference to Mr . Babbage ' s “ fragment , ” The
Ninth Bridgewater Treatise . To some of the philosophical views developed and
illustrated in it , I shall have occasion to refer particularly in the course of the ...

Sivu 153 ... than this unbroken continuance of uniform laws and harmonious adaptation to.
* For a full illustration of this point it is almost superfluous to refer the reader to Dr
. Buckland ' s Bridgewater Treatise . . . euse TO NATURAL THEOLOGY . 153.

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Sivu 170 - But if the matter was evenly disposed throughout an infinite space, it could never convene into one mass, but some of it would convene into one mass, and some into another, so as to make an infinite number of great masses, scattered at great distances from one to another throughout all that infinite space.

Sivu 73 - The laws of attraction and repulsion are to be regarded as laws of motion, and these only as rules or methods observed in the productions of natural effects, the efficient and final causes whereof are not of mechanical consideration. Certainly, if the explaining a phenomenon be to assign its proper efficient and final cause,* it should seem the mechanical philosophers never explained any thing ; their province being only to discover the laws of nature, that is, the general rules and methods of motion,...

Sivu 161 - Whereas the main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these and such like Questions.

Sivu 313 - ... newness, to interest with a perpetual charm the growing mind of a rational being, and lead him by a flowery path t o the cultivation of the divine thing within him, which raises him above all that his senses make known; and thus to fit him for the highest contemplation of which he is capable, namely, the relation which he bears to the unseen AUTHOR of all this visible material world.

Sivu 312 - The full and complete system of organic life now on the globe includes all the effects of land and sea, warmth and cold, divided regions, and all the other things which are the diversifying causes of nature ; and it is no wonder if, before this land was raised from the deep, and the present distinction of natural regions was produced, there was not the same extreme variety of natural productions. Till that variety was occasioned on the globe, it was not the fitting place for intellectual man that...

Sivu 161 - Now by the help of these Principles, all material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles above-mention'd, variously associated in the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order. And if he did so, it's unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature; though being once form'd, it may continue by those Laws for many Ages.

Sivu 205 - Revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God immediately, which reason vouches the truth of, by the testimony and proofs it gives, that they come from God. So that he that takes away reason, to make way for revelation, puts out the light of both...